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September reflections 💃🪩🌸💨🫧🍵🍏💚🙇🏻‍♀️ Harmony, serenity, goodness, surrender and order. There is so much grace in the unpredictable, it provides abundant opportunities for Wu Wei. Effortless action is not without movement, it is anything but passive; it simply entails no striving, no escaping and no perceptions of how it should be, merely aligned response. It just is as it isness. It is both restraint and yearning as you move toward what is arising without needing to impose any will upon it.

This last month required receptive attention, participatory presence and a whole lot of discipline, both in acting and surrender.

Sensei taught on ‘Jaku’, and as always with the path of tea, it was poignant to my trials reflected through my practice. As I currently experience and understand Jaku, it is the stillness that emerges within disciplined action. “When striving has ceased”. Yet it is not without action, as it comes from it. “It is accessing the primordial flow through engaged immediacy”. This requires action, and yet it is stillness. Similar to Wu Wei. And from this place, magic emerges.

And now it’s Libra season and birthday month! Time to play.

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$My first attempt at Koicha with my new Kama Furo. Coal and all. It took me about 5 hours to get the ash here, and my OCD cooked me with perceptions of imperfection not imperfect enough. Much harder that I anticipated, but the meditative concentration and one minded absorption was delicious. Finding consistent sized and shaped coals true to requirements was also a challenge, especially as it was the first time establishing an understanding of the heating capacity. Balance in all things in the practice. And so heating began. As sensei says, Koicha begins when the tea is sieved. Mini Fuji. I used @thealchemyoftea “ceremonial” matcha. It has a fantastic profile for Keiko (tea practice) and handles well for thick tea (Koicha). My 100th attempt to fold my Fukusa over the makeshift “chaire” (tea caddy). I am thankful to years of origami play. The set up. Loving my imported and very fragile chawan. Managed to finish this Koicha in 80 whisks. #goals For the guest of no guest. Me. Triangle fractals My plants get matcha infused waste water. The coals after an hour. Fin.$

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04.09.2026 with @jessbonintea
In Kalk Bay, Western Cape
#artislife #lifeisart #southside #onelove #livethelifeyoulive

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$August reflections 🪷🫧🍵💚🌈🏹🦚 Be motivated by the moon. In August last year l launched @thealchemyoftea, this August I launched @jadesamuraiofficial, both the culmination of many years on the path of tea, and only a fraction of a lifetime dedicated to taking refuge in the leaf.$

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